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Revenge of Odessa

The global bestselling author of The Day of the Jackal, now a major TV series, returns with his most gripping thriller yet

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The master storyteller - author of The Day of the Jackal - returns, with his most explosive thriller yet.

The Nazis may have lost the battle. But the war is just beginning...


Summer, 2025. A US senator is burned to death in his Washington townhouse. Masked gunmen massacre supporters during a football match in Berlin. And an old man is murdered while he sleeps in the dementia ward of a German hospital. Three apparently unconnected events, three steps on the countdown to apocalypse.

When journalist and podcaster Georg Miller starts joining the dots between them, he finds himself the target of professional killers. His investigation soon reveals that his would-be assassins are from an organisation known as the Odessa, a menacing and powerful Nazi group intent on regaining power.

The Odessa has spread its poison from a covert compound in the Bavarian countryside all the way to the halls of the American Capitol. And now, as their campaign to destabilise the Western political system accelerates, Georg must stop the next attack, before it changes the course of history…

'I loved this book. Breakneck pace and an utterly gripping plot. I loved the characters, the twists and turns, the violence. I hardly had time to catch my breath.' Imran Mahmood

'Explosive, chilling and impossible to put down.' Adam Hamdy

'A twisting, up-to-the-minute thriller that effortlessly blends Forsyth's classic style with Kent's modern pace and punch.' Mason Cross

© Frederick Forsyth 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025

Crime Thrillers Espionage International Mystery & Crime Mystery Political Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense Exciting Assassin War

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Praise for Revenge of Odessa
Captures a real flavour of the groundbreaking original.
Cracking…like Forsyth’s best works, Revenge of Odessa, both entertains and unsettles.
Displays all of Forsyth's political prescience and reminds us how clever he was at forecasting our dangerous future.
Published in the shadow of Forsyth’s passing, this sequel to the classic, half-a-century-old blockbuster brings the story of the Odessa bang up to date. Drawing on contemporary narratives, Forsyth and Kent expertly weave tension, pace and suspense into a ticking clock thriller that scarcely lets up from the electrifying opening to the explosive finale. Outstanding.
The long-awaited sequel to...The Odessa File is every bit as dramatic as you'd expect.
I loved this book. Breakneck pace and an utterly gripping plot. I loved the characters, the twists and turns, the violence. I hardly had time to catch my breath.
Return of Odessa is a terrific swan song from the man who changed the course of an entire genre of popular fiction.
A grandmaster of thriller writing and one of its rising stars combine to deliver a blistering, all-too-plausible, tension-soaked tale that hits like a sniper’s bullet. Explosive, chilling, and impossible to put down.
A twisting, up-to-the-minute thriller that effortlessly blends Forsyth’s classic style with Kent’s modern pace and punch. Revenge of Odessa is a book for the fraught geopolitics of our times.
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Excellent narration of a woke world where old friends and old enemies collide. Well paced over a hectic week. Good idea, not pulled off with any aplomb.

The whole book lacks descriptions, relying on the action to carry the characters. The female MC, apart from being a woman of colour, we know nothing else of her, not her shoes, her hair, her taste in clothes. She is like a paper cut-out but she saves the world of course.

Listened to this on holiday in Egypt. This morning at breakfast in the hotel 3 young German males greeted each other with "Heil Hitler" I kid you not.

IT WAS OK

Fuhrer Furore

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Top class again, love these stories and so exciting from start to finish. A must listen for any fan of this genre.

Magnificent

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A game of cat and mouse with the Odessa. The plot is farfetched at times but it's an easy listen.

good fun but not the original

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If you like Forsyth’s style in the original Odessa book, don’t expect thisbook’s style to be any where close

Not a real Forsyth read

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Plot too drawn out, too much padding, plot predictable from early on.
Would benefit from editing.
Not as good as F. Forsythia writing on his own. I was disappointed and I'm a Forsyth fan.

Similar to Forsyths distinctive style & a sequel to The Odessa File, but lacking.

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